Over the course of the last three weeks, a steady stream of women have come forward detailing their accounts of alleged sexual harassment at the hands of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes. Ailes, who has firmly denied all allegations of wrongdoing, stepped down from his top position at the network last week, after longtime host Gretchen Carlsonsued him for what she claimed was years of inappropriate behavior and retaliation for not complying with his advances.

A number of women followed suit, sharing accounts of alleged interactions with Ailes that occurred over the span of the last half-century. Most notably, Fox News star Megyn Kellyreportedly told investigators hired by 21st Century Fox that Ailes had sexually harassed her a decade ago when she was just starting out (Ailes denied this, as well, saying that he helped her career tremendously).

The most recent alleged account of sexual harassment by Ailes is particularly disturbing. On Friday afternoon, New York published a story about a former Fox News employee that details more than 20 years of what she called “psychological torture,” including allegations that Ailes paid her for sex, that he taped their encounters as a means of keeping her silent, and that he used promotions within Fox News as a way to keep their relationship secret.

Laurie Luhn, who served as Fox News’s director of booking, told New York that she got in touch with the law firm conducting 21st Century Fox’s investigation, claiming that she had been harassed by Ailes since 1991 and that Fox News executives were not only aware of their relationship, but also helped cover it up.

Among the most damning of allegations is the $3.15 million settlement agreement that Luhn says she signed in 2011, a copy of which she reportedly showed New York. Luhn claims that Fox News agreed to the settlement after she wrote the network’s attorney a letter saying she had been sexually harassed by Ailes for two decades. The agreement reportedly bars her from going to court against the network or speaking with government authorities. Of course, it also reportedly stops her from speaking to the press—a provision she said she risks violating but that she felt the need to tell the truth anyway. (Parent company 21st Century Fox, which has been conducting an investigation with the law firm Paul, Weiss into all of the allegations against Ailes, has reportedly waived nondisclosure agreements to allow former Fox employees to speak freely about their experiences.)

In Luhn’s account of her relationship with Ailes, the Fox News chief allegedly first invited her back to the Crystal City Marriott in January 1991, after he helped prep George H.W. Bush for an Oval Office address. There, Luhn claims Ailes told her to put on a black garter and stockings—her “uniform” as he allegedly called it—and dance for him. He filmed her as she obliged, later telling her that he was going to put it in a safe-deposit box “just so we understand each other,” she told New York. She claimed they would regularly meet in hotels for sexual encounters, even after she was hired by Fox News in 1996.

When staffers grew suspicious about their relationship, she alleges that Ailes promoted her so that she would report to his close ally at the network. After her promotion, he reportedly said, “Now, remember, you’re Doris Day. Go put your uniform on, get over to the DoubleTree, and thank me for this."

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Luhn told New York that Ailes asked her to perform sadomasochistic sex with other women while he watched. By 2006, he was reportedly asking her to recruit young woman for him—asking her to find him “Roger’s Angels,” to “find [him] whores,” she said. She was later demoted to doing events for the network, and said she suffered several mental breakdowns. Ailes, she said, was paranoid that she would talk about their relationship, and needed to monitor all her outgoing e-mails.

Lawyers for Ailes did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did representatives for Fox News and 21st Century Fox.

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